the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

Porches are America's lost rooms.